Unequal Crime Decline : Theorizing Race, Urban Inequality, and Criminal Violence / Karen F. Parker.
2008
HV6789 .P39 2008
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Title
Unequal Crime Decline : Theorizing Race, Urban Inequality, and Criminal Violence / Karen F. Parker.
Author
Parker, Karen F., author.
ISBN
9780814768495
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814768495.001.0001 doi
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HV6789 .P39 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.2/560973
Summary
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleCrime in most urban areas has been falling since 1991. While the decline has been well-documented, few scholars have analyzed which groups have most benefited from the crime decline and which are still on the frontlines of violence-and why that might be. In Unequal Crime Decline, Karen F. Parker presents a structural and theoretical analysis of the various factors that affect the crime decline, looking particularly at the past three decades and the shifts that have taken place, and offers original insight into which trends have declined and why.Taking into account such indicators as employment, labor market opportunities, skill levels, housing, changes in racial composition, family structure, and drug trafficking, Parker provides statistics that illustrate how these factors do or do not affect urban violence, and carefully considers these factors in relation to various crime trends, such as rates involving blacks, whites, but also trends among black males, white females, as well as others. Throughout the book she discusses popular structural theories of crime and their limitations, in the end concentrating on today's issues and important contemporary policy to be considered. Unequal Crime Decline is a comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated look at the relationship among race, urban inequality, and violence in the years leading up to and following America's landmark crime drop.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Difference Race and Gender Makes
3. Structural Perspectives on Crime and Their Critics
4. Racial Stratification and the Local Urban Economy
5. Race, Urban Inequality, and the Changing Nature of Violence
6. Conclusion
Technical Appendix
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Difference Race and Gender Makes
3. Structural Perspectives on Crime and Their Critics
4. Racial Stratification and the Local Urban Economy
5. Race, Urban Inequality, and the Changing Nature of Violence
6. Conclusion
Technical Appendix
Notes
References
Index
About the Author